Drugmaker GSK stopped making asthma inhaler Flovent earlier this year. That’s left patients struggling to find other medication their insurance... A discontinued asthma medication has patients ...
The market withdrawal of the brand-name asthma drug fluticasone propionate (Flovent) was linked to increased discontinuation of inhaled steroid therapy among children who had used the drug, a ...
Some pediatricians say they’ve seen an increase in asthma-related hospitalizations and deaths. Families are facing drug shortages and increased costs as they try to get the inhalers their children ...
Massachusetts families are still struggling to find alternatives about a year after GlaxoSmithKline canceled a widely prescribed children’s asthma medication, a problem given renewed urgency as flu ...
Six months after GSK stopped making a popular inhaler, pediatric patients with asthma still struggle to find alternative medications while urgent cares and hospitals contend with a rise in ...
When Jacqueline Vakil needed a refill for Flovent, her 4-year-old son’s asthma medicine, she couldn’t get it. The drugmaker GSK had stopped making the popular inhaler, back in January. To make matters ...